Practice Management

Tulsa (Okla.) Bone & Joint Associates' Union Pines Surgery Center received a bomb threat from an anonymous source Dec. 13, Fox 23 News reports.

Fall River, Mass.-based Saint Anne's Hospital received The Joint Commission's national Gold Seal of Approval certification for its spine surgery program, The Herald News reports.

Cleveland Clinic is making its goal to raise the minimum wage for employees to $15 per hour by 2020, according to Cleveland.com.

Celebration, Fla.-based Nicholson Center teamed up with CMR Surgical to launch a training program for the device company's Versius surgical robotic system.

MedCore Partners plans to open a new medical office building on the Dallas-based Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance campus.

Watford City, N.D.-based McKenzie County Healthcare System will launch a new orthopedic surgery department with Ravindra Joshi, MD, at the helm, according to The Roundup.

Olympia (Wash.) Orthopaedic Associates launched new opioid protocol to educate residents and limit the number of prescriptions written, according to Gray's Harbor Talk.

Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush is opening a new facility in Oak Brook, Ill., according to a Daily Herald report.

David Jacofsky, MD, is the founder, Chairman and CEO of The CORE Institute, a Phoenix-based orthopedic practice quickly growing into one of the largest groups in the nation.

Morganton, N.C.-based Carolinas HealthCare System Blue Ridge hospital implemented robotic surgery system Excelsius GPS to assist with spine surgery, according to Morganton News Herald.